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-Fearlessmaiden34

Chapter 7

Sango grabbed her things out of her locker for the night. She turned off the lights to the restaurant, threw a quick goodbye over her shoulder to her manager and then headed outside to the dark blue chevy that awaited her in the parking lot. She smiled as she could already see his handsome face behind the wheel as she headed for the car.

"Hey." She smiled as she reached the drivers side of the door.

"Hey…?" He replied confused as to why she was standing on his side of the car.

"So here's the deal. I trusted you to take me home the other night, and to go out again with you tonight, so now you have to trust me to drive to the place I am taking you." She beamed at him showing confidence for the first time in a very long time. He brought out the good traits in her that she thought were lost forever.

"…I don't even let my brothers drive my car." Was his only reply. To be honest, he was taken aback by her new found confidence, and he liked it.

"Well I'm not one of your brothers, and if you want to go anywhere with me tonight, you're going to have to trust me." She smirked at him. She couldn't believe her own words. Being bold felt good, she was proud of herself.

Bankotsu looked at her and knew that he did want to go to where ever she was taking him tonight. He didn't care where and the thought of being able to see more of this bold Sango thrilled him, she was so attractive and she didn't even know it.

"Come on, I won't cause to much damage to it." She smiled at him.

Bankotsu sighed deciding to let her win, he was helpless against her and her new found confidence. Besides, the thought of her driving his car really turned him on, so he figured the pay off of letting her drive would be worth the risk.

"Fine." He threw his hands up in defeat as he opened the door and got up to get out of his car. "Just please take 'er easy."

Sango beamed as she snatched the keys from him and settled herself into the car. Once Bankotsu was in the car they were on their way.

"So where is it exactly where you are taking me?" He turned to look at Sango driving his car and proved that all earlier assumptions of how pretty she would look driving it were just as he expected, she looked even more gorgeous behind the wheel of his 1967 chevy impala.

" You'll just have to wait and see!" she smirked stealing several glances at his handsome face while also attempting to keep her eyes on the road.

Several minutes passed as they started to reach the countryside to the town. They turned down a long dirt road and Bankotsu turned to Sango raising an eyebrow at her.

"Oh relax! We are just about there, this place is a little secluded, but that's why I like it." She answered him.

The car tires crunched the dirt underneath them as Sango drove a tad bit farther down the road before bringing the car to a stop.

There in front of them was the most beautiful, big weeping willow tree that had a string of lights all throughout the branches. There was a tree swing hanging off a thick branch to the side and just behind the tree there was a creek with a dock leading out into the water.

"My dads friend owns this land, and he decided to make a little hangout here a long time ago for my brother and I. I grew up on that swing, and fishing off that dock, and if you follow the stream down a little ways, it widens into a swimming area. He even put those lights up in the tree so that Kohaku and I could hangout here at night." Sango smiled as she reflected on the memories.

Then she turned to Bankotsu who looked surprised as he looked around.

"Wow, it really is nice. I can't believe you've been coming here for this long and only you and your brother know about this place. That's so cool. And the lights add a romantic touch I might add." He said as he winked at her.

Sango rolled her eyes as she chucked at the last part and headed over to the tree swing. Bankotsu followed close behind.

She sat down on the swing as she slowly swayed back and forth as he leaned up against the tree beside her.

"This was a really cool place to bring me Sango, I can tell it means a lot to you, so I am truly honoured that you decided to bring me here of all places." He smiled at her sincerely.

"Well I figured I owed it to you after today at work how you had to leave like that, and I'll take any excuse to come here." She said while comfortably swaying on the swing.

"Yea, so what was up with that guy?" He asked.

Sango took a deep breath and then looked up at him.

"That was my ex boyfriend Miroku. We were together for three years, and I really cared about him, but I also had suspicions that he may be seeing another girl." Sango closed her eyes at the memory wishing she could just forget it all.

"One night I followed him after he left my house early after he claimed he was too "tired" and wanted to go home and sleep. I followed him all the way to my old best friends house where she met him outside with a kiss." Sango glanced up at Bankotsu who listened intently and then continued.

"If that wasn't bad enough I found out he was seeing two other girls besides my old friend as well. Him and my friend dated for while after we broke up because of his cheating ways, but I heard a little while ago that they recently broke up, and just like he always did, I have a feeling he was in the restaurant today to try and make up with me because that guy just cannot be single. But I won't ever take him back, ever. Not after what he did." Sango finished her story as she looked up at Bankotsu and studied his face.

Bankotsu was disgusted with the story. No wonder why Sango was so hard to get through to. After all she has been through, she is afraid to give her heart to someone because she doesn't want to risk it getting broken again.

"You deserve much better." Bankotsu said as he stared into her beautiful hazel eyes. From that moment on he made it his goal to show this girl that not all guys were like that, not him. He would show her that loyalty and honesty could heal a mending heart, and he would never let anybody else hurt her ever again. "Sango, I want you to know that you really can trust me. I wont ever hurt you like that, I want to be here for you in any form that you will let me be. You are unlike anybody I have ever met and I don't intend to let you get away from me that easily. You can talk to me whenever you need to, and if that guy ever comes near you again, just say the word and I will set him straight so that he will be scared of ever coming near you again."

"Thanks." She smiled up at him from the swing. She could see from the look in his azure eyes that he was telling the truth. The only thing she could see as she held his blue gaze was sincerity. It was at that moment when she realized that she was hooked. It was just a short time that she had known Bankotsu, but for someone who wore their heart on their sleeve and fell for someone as easily as Sango did she knew she was hopeless. All she could do was hope that he wouldn't break her.

They sat under the willow tree enjoying eachothers presence for a little while longer before Sango decided that it was time to head home before Kohaku started to worry.

Bankotsu drove her home and made her promise that they would go for another "date" as soon as possible. She laughed as she agreed, and then headed out of the car. With one final goodbye and goodnight, Sango left the car and headed to her front door. Once she was inside Bankotsu left himself to go home to his brothers. Both Bankotsu and Sango were wonderstruck and craving more of each other.

-Fearlessmaiden34